Backyard Conservation
Backyard Conservation Workshops have returned this year, with 23 workshops and 5 sales over three months to help Fairfield residents lead more sustainable lives. This year 18 organizations partnered to develop educational programming on a wide range of topics. Local sponsors and businesses have generously covered registration costs so that all of the educational workshops are free! Local experts will lead many of the sessions, which will be held at various locations across the community. Subscribe to our mailing list (box to the right) to receive weekly email updates so that you do not miss a workshop! You can also add our event calendar to iCal from the main page.
The Fairfield Public Library is working closely with the presenters to have weekly displays prepared on resources specific to each workshop. FPAC will be filming many of the workshops, archiving the videos, and will weave them into their regular programming for residents who could not attend in person. Click on the workshop and sale titles below for full description of events – updates are made weekly. Subscribe to our mailing list (top right of this page) to receive a weekly “head’s up!” on workshops and sales so that you don’t miss anything!
Backyard Conservation Series – Spring 2011
****NOTE: Links below are to the event calendar – if there is more than one event on the same date, you may have to scroll to the bottom of the calendar entry for event information*****
March
3/12 Invasive Plant Workshop – Support the Natives! Fight the Invasives! (click & scroll to bottom of link)
3/12 Backyard Beekeeping and Pollinator Conservation Workshops**Updated with Presentation Links!!!!**
3/18 Seed Savers Exchange: The Ecology and Biology of Seed Saving
3/19 Backyard Gardening for the Farmer’s Market
3/24 Growing Organically – What you Need to Know
3/26 Home Assessment Luncheon – Attics and Basements ***Note Location and Time Change!!****
April
4/10 Backyard Chickens for Beginners
4/21 Fairfield Middle School Rain Garden Dedication Event
4/23 Earth Day Garlic Mustard Pulling Workday (Scroll down)
4/28 Yes you can CAN – and Freeze too!
May
5/1 Square Foot Gardening (scroll to the bottom of this link)
5/1 Fairfield Garden Tour/Farm Crawl (scroll to bottom of this link)
5/7 Old Windows Aren’t a Pane – They’re Green! w/Bob Yapp (COSC) (scroll down)
5/7 Passive Wood Floor Restoration with Bob Yapp (COSC) (scroll to bottom of link)
5/12-5/13 2-Day Energy Efficiency Rehab for Contractors (COSC)
5/14 DIY Rainbarrels and the Conservation Station
5/18 What to Do with Wells and Cisterns
5/19 Film Showing: Liquid Assets
5/21 Composting Strategies for Homeowners NOTE CHANGES!!
5/25 The Serious Business of Rainwater Management
Sales!!
Earth Machine Composters $60 – City of Fairfield approved compositors for sale at the Jefferson County Extension office, 8:30am-4pm M-F
Square Foot Garden Kits -can be ordered ahead of Square Foot Gardening workshop, more information available here (scroll down)
Third Annual Edible Cityscape Sale – fruit trees and berry bushes at wholesale prices, workshops too! More info here
DIY Rainbarrel Kits – at the Farmers Market, Howard Park on May 14th. More information here (scroll down)
Bee/Top Bar Hive ordering – 3/12 – 12pm and 4pm, information available at Beekeeping and Pollinator Workshop
